PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThat's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbooklemmy.worldimagemessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up11.18Karrow-down14
arrow-up11.17Karrow-down1imageThat's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbooklemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square132fedilink
minus-squarekubica@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up49·1 month agoThe phrasing and also that tiny drawing near the headline.
minus-squarejol@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·1 month agoSettler: I’ll give you these piles of bills for this land, so you’ll be rich. Native: what are these green papers
minus-squarephdepressed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoIt probably wasn’t green at the time since ya know the US didn’t exist much less dollar bills and cotton money instead of coinage and various types of paper banknotes.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoDamn, I completely missed that XD
The phrasing and also that tiny drawing near the headline.
Settler: I’ll give you these piles of bills for this land, so you’ll be rich.
Native: what are these green papers
It probably wasn’t green at the time since ya know the US didn’t exist much less dollar bills and cotton money instead of coinage and various types of paper banknotes.
Also, this was Canada.
Damn, I completely missed that XD